At the core--these two put together usually become: "Reaching New Heights"

• This is probably far too close to FC7's "Flying High"
• I suppose this means we both have high aspirations?

Basic

Progress

• Sense of motion

• Forward colours

  • This very much implies warm colours--warm colors come forward, cool recede
  • Use Nature like colours (idea: colour groups representing a piece of reality)
• Directional lines

• All pieces should have a very distinct sense of directionality

  • Perspective is a good tool to achieve this, and much better than the 'Wind' effect

Collaboration

• Things enjoined, intertwined
• Interlocking pieces
• Circular motifs
• Rather than things building up to make a whole--that would imply building/creation rather than collaboration

• Harmonizing colours

• We need to answer the question: Where do WE collaborate? Then we need to ask ourselves some other questions: What is the atmosphere of that place? What moods it implies? Are we happy or sad when collaborating? -- when done we have to translate the answers to colors.

Motifs

• The circular motifs of collaboration contradict the directionality of progress¹

  • ¹Semi-offtopic sidenote: An image of DNA springs to mind, intertwining and yet reaching relatively infinite distances

Progress

• Arrows, timelines
• Artifical objects--avoid overdoing chrome (Very NA connotation)

• An evolution of objects, shapes

Collaboration

• Pieces-swatches of color pieced together, different yet complementing.

• A patchy colour look can contribute to the organic feel commonly associated with Ubuntu

• Puzzles
• Gears in sync
• Synergy

Building, directional energy?

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-- Simply the begining - Burning Hot Africa

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Do not use the glass effect where it's not present! Example is glass like paper. It's just not natural.

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